Delta Airlines Sky Peco's

Anyone else wondering how such a good airline program went to shit when Delta took over NWA's program, this new program seem's like it takes a Bazillion miles to earn a free seat, and when you do have a seat earned, good luck trying to get it!!!

"Sky Peco's?" I don't get it.

Peco's aren't worth much, and when you try to redeam your miles with skymiles, all of a sudden you find out that you need many, many, many more miles than what they say you need for travel. So, since the Peco is so miserly, so is the new and improved Delta Skymiles Program!!

What is "Sky Peco's"?

A mile is a long lengthy term. A Peco is a very small monetary value. Every time I try to redeam one of my free R/T with Skymiles for 25,000 miles, they are not available anytime, but if you give up 50,000 miles, miraculously they are very abundandt. So I have decided to rename the program from SkyMiles to SkyPecos, just my 2 cents worth, or about 25000 pecos!

sky pecos it is. I have a pretty long relationship with the DL. My frequency of upgrades is my main complaint, but getting 25K seats to vegas comes real close. I once believed getting a 25k roundtrip meant I had to 'buy' 330 days out or the day that day went on 'sale.' Not so, now, I believe. Though I want it to be easier, the best I can do now is only buy what I'm willing to pay, even if it means red eyes. Then, every single time they change the itinerary, I call and complain. I always include my wish to not be in redeye, regardless of what change they made. It usually pays off but it I may have to make 3+ calls to reservations and call !every! time they change. Good Luck!

LOL! I think Lee O means Peso, not Peco.

Yes, Peso; now Everyone will know what I was talking about.

Whats a Chilcoot ?

All of the airlines are getting tighter with available free seats at their base levels, and the mergers of recent years haven't helped that situation. With Delta/NW, United/Continental and American, over the last two years I've been using flyer miles for one-way portions of round trip itineraries and paying for the other one way portion. It is more likely to find a base point level at half points flight one-way than it is to find a base point level round trip.

Frontier(Midwest/Republic) is by far my favorite airline. I'm Summit level with them, which means no charges for checked luggage (one or two bags), free stretch seating, priority boarding, premium/first class security line access at airports that have it, no flight change charges, free confirmed seat same day standby, free adult beverages, free DirecTV on their Airbus planes, and the best part, 150% flyer miles. I'd fly Frontier every time I fly (average 25 R/T flights a year), but they don't fly everywhere I need to go, so I still have to use the other airlines for some of my travel.